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CT757fan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Coast Guard is searching for a man who jumped overboard from a Carnival cruise ship, officials said. The 30-year-old went overboard on Sunday morning while the Carnival Elation was about 95 miles east of Melbourne, Florida, and heading back to Jacksonville after a cruise to the Bahamas, according to […]
(NEW YORK) — A deadly heat wave that has persisted for weeks continues to grip a swath of the United States. The National Weather Service has issued heat alerts that are in effect on Monday for 40 million Americans across at least a dozen states, from Montana to Texas and Florida. The latest forecast shows […]
(WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont.) — A woman was found dead after what authorities say was “an apparent bear encounter” near Yellowstone National Park. The woman’s body was discovered on Buttermilk Trail west of West Yellowstone, Montana, on Saturday morning, according to Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks. Authorities said grizzly bear tracks were found at the scene. […]
A Coast Guard aircrew saves two men Sunday morning after their boat capsized off the coast of Jekyll Island in Georgia, in this photo released by the U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Savannah. — U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Savannah (JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga.) — A U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Savannah aircrew said it saved […]
Official White House Photo by Katie Ricks (WASHINGTON) — When second gentleman Doug Emhoff lands in Samoa on Monday he will announce the administration’s commitment to provide more funding from the United States to the Island. It will be the first time in U.S. history a senior White House official has ever visited Samoa. Emhoff […]
(CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio) — An investigation is underway into why a police dog was deployed to attack a semi-truck driver who appeared in body-camera footage to be complying with orders to get on his knees and keep his hands in the air after allegedly leading officers from several law enforcement agencies on a highway chase, authorities […]
(MONTGOMERY, Ala.) — Setting the stage for another legal battle in their state, Alabama’s Republican-led Legislature on Friday passed a new congressional map with just one majority-Black district and a second district that has less than 50% Black residents — a move that state Democrats denounced as a shameless rejection of a recent U.S. Supreme Court […]
(NEW YORK) — A shooting that erupted in a Houston park over the weekend that left a pregnant woman dead and four other people injured marked the 400th mass shooting in the United States in 2023, according to a national website that tracks firearm deaths and injuries. The Houston incident was among six mass shootings that […]
(WASHINGTON) — House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul said Sunday that he’s concerned North Korea will demand concessions from the United States in exchange for releasing American Travis King, the soldier who last week fled across the border from South Korea. “Is he defecting? I think he was running from his problems,” McCaul, R-Texas, told […]
(NEW YORK) — An unrelenting heat dome continues to hover over the western United States this weekend, prompting heat alerts for tens of millions of residents. Heat advisories and warnings were issued for 40 million Americans across 10 states on Sunday, with the highest temperatures concentrated in places like California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah. Excessive heat […]
